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The all-inclusive BodyHoliday spa in St Lucia promises total rejuvenation in a luxurious setting. Liz Hoggard checked in for the transformation

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Meet Jessica Raine, star of new BBC drama Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife is the new BBC1 drama based on the true story of nuns delivering babies in post-war Poplar. Liz Hoggard meets its young star, Jessica Raine, who is fast getting used to challenging roles

The boy with Dickens in his blood - Harry Lloyd

Actor Harry Lloyd has always been obsessed with the work of his great-great-great grandfather, as he tells Liz Hoggard, and now he stars in a new adaptation of Great Expectations

Interview: Downton's Sophie McShera

Sophie McShera, 26, portrays Downton's scullery maid and is in hit play Jerusalem. She talks to Liz Hoggard about bad hair days, smelly costumes and how the downstairs cast have more fun

Going for the juggler - Gandini Juggling

Every year, ITV begs juggler Sean Gandini to take part in Britain's Got Talent. Every year he turns them down flat

Chic geek: Jessie Cave and her quirky fashion label

Jessie Cave, Lavender Brown of Harry Potter fame, is a new kind of star - one with a quirky fashion label who directs short films on the net. She tells Liz Hoggard what drives her

The ladies are for turning: how Maggie seduced Meryl - and reduced me to tears

Britain's first female PM is a hate figure to a generation of liberal women. Yet in The Iron Lady, a group of these same sworn enemies and Meryl Streep, who plays Mrs T, find a fighter to cherish

The Society Club - review

Not everyone will love The Society Club but personally I can't think of a better place for a first date

Bodysgallen Hall & Spa, Llandudno - review

Last year, a friend of mine spent four months in hospital on morphine. As she slowly recovered, I had a fantasy of taking her somewhere special to convalesce

Right to wear arms: Armoury, the hot new fashion trend

Mary Portas has proved that hosiery works just as well on the arms as on the legs, as Liz Hoggard discovers

London's a-list holistic massages

These days massage is not about being pummelled on a cold table. Holistic masseuses will devise a bespoke treatment to restore body and soul, carried out on a heated bed in a candlelit room

The dangerous guide for girls

London is the ideal playground for women who are solvent and young at heart but old enough to know better. Liz Hoggard opens her little black book for this discerning band of pleasure-seekers

Downton-pedia: Has Series 2 of Downton Abbey lost the plot?

It's required Sunday viewing but by Monday the second series of Downton Abbey brings a Twitter and Facebook storm of criticism and plot analysis. Liz Hoggard answers the pressing questions

The Big Red Bus, SE8 - review

If you're a gritty Londoner you'll forgive the menu at The Big Red Bus for the sheer sense of adventure. And how often do you get to sit in an elevated section of the DLR listening to Billie Holiday?

Michelle Obama can't dress and Lucian was odd, says Celia Bertwell

Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark were fashion's favourite couple in the Sixties. But it's her intense 50-year friendship with artist David Hockney that inspired her new book

The London multi-storey that is too cool for cars

London's creative crowd are using spartan concrete car parks to stage their shows and parties. Liz Hoggard bought a ticket

The new body art

As body art gathers momentum, skin illustrator Emma Hack brings her skilful designs to Art London, writes Liz Hoggard

Conor McPherson knows what women want

As Conor McPherson brings his most ambitious play yet to the National Theatre, Liz Hoggard finds out how he got in touch with his feminine side to write for a new audience

Howard Jacobson: I used to think this city's orgy of excess must soon be over. But still it goes on ...

The Booker Prize-winning northern novelist talks to Liz Hoggard about love and older women, growing up and how he has learned to call the capital his home

The naming of parts: a new frankness about vaginas

Feature: There's a new frankness about vaginas in popular culture, from The Inbetweeners Movie to needlework created by the feminist artists of the Shoreditch WI

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